Bossiaea peninsularis
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Bossiaea peninsularis I.Thomps.
Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Bossiaea ensata Sieber ex DC. (misapplied)
- Bossiaea riparia A.Cunn. ex Benth. (misapplied)
Distribution (APC): SA
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, SA eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Collette_2021 (1), Draper_2023 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), SPRAT_2025_2 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 21 traits from 23 records in 8 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 15 mm (15-15 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- fruit_width (numerical): 15 mm (15-15 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- fruit_type (categorical): legume (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 2.25 mm (2-2.5 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- leaf_width (numerical): 0.4 mm (0.3-0.5 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (1); myrmecochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- dispersers (categorical): ants (1); passive (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnyyynn (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
- storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.44 mg (3.44-3.44 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 1 m (1-1 m) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPRAT_2025_2 | 8 | 10 | F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 4 | 4 | A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x. |
| Draper_2023 | 3 | 3 | J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Collette_2021 | 1 | 1 | J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203. |
| Kew_2019_1 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Kew_2019_6 | 1 | 1 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |